On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:41, you wrote: > Just resolving around 6 or seven machines on a local net, firewalled. > any ideas n which is better/easier to maintain? I have set up bind from > a template before, never touched djbdns. bind. but for a little net like that all you have to do is put the names and numbers in the /etc/hosts file on the IPCop which will then do the dns serving for you very nicely.
bash-2.05b$ dig berty ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2rc1 <<>> berty ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51434 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;berty. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: berty. 0 IN A 192.168.2.10 ;; Query time: 8 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.3#53(192.168.2.3) ;; WHEN: Sun Sep 7 22:59:31 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 39 Similarly for non-local hosts, but I won't bore you with a dig printout. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
